Monday, March 24, 2008

Site Specific Browsers & identity?

Are there implications for today's identity in Site Specific Browsers like Mozilla Prism?
An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser.

At the very least, you can't rely on the chrome for alerting the user to phishing etc.


I installed Prism, and for each SSB application you create, you specify what UI components (e.g. location, status) will be displayed.

Separately, might 'designing to work exclusively with a single web application' interfere with SSO (e.g. redirects)? Presumably not, if the SSB just uses the underlying installed browser.

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